Cynical
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Cynical Definitions

n. Mythology collected to establish the social discipline of your neighbor.

n. Original commerce.

n. Man's attempt to explain god, much to God's annoyance.

n. A theological fungus that thrives best in the dark and when fed by bullshit.

n. A daughter of Hope and Fear, used to explain to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.

Cynical Quotations

One man's God often is another man's abomination.

— Unknown

If money is the root of all evil, why do churches keep begging for more?

— Unknown

Religion fails from the start, by trying to conceive of God, who by definition is inconceivable.

— Guy Smith

My concerns with churches meddling in political affairs have nothing to do with faith based morality rubbing off on politicians. The concern is that the Churches will find themselves adopting the relative morality associated with politics.

— Kenneth Corbin

A stupid man's report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand. [GS: This explains prophets and their relationship to God, and the acolytes relationship to the prophet]

— Bertrand Russell

With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.

— Steven Weinberg

My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.

— Christopher Morley

The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.

— Sir Richard Francis Burton

The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact than a drunken man is happier than a sober one.

— George Bernard Shaw

One man's theology is another man's belly laugh.

— Robert Heinlein

Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.

— H. L. Mencken

People who insist that God is everywhere are usually the sames people trying to corral us into churches, mosques and synagogues.

— William Ferraiolo

Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.

— Eric Hoffer

Say what you will about the Ten Commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them.

— H. L. Mencken